...The chapter discusses the impact of the Suez Crisis on Egyptian nationalism through the lens of Fuʾād Ḥaddād's colloquial Arabic poem Farḥa, which celebrates the nationalization of the Suez Canal and the Aswan High Dam under Gamal Abdel Nasser's leadership. Ḥaddād, a communist poet...

...This chapter examines the Enlightenment–French Revolution paradigm in relation to questions relevant to the memory and national identity of republican France, the political myth of the demise of the Ancien Régime, or the political, social and ideological roots of nearly all...